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The bell pepper is a fruit of Capsicum annuum and is also known as sweet pepper.Fruits of the plant can be red, yellow, orange, green, white, and purple.Some bell peppers are grouped with other peppers as "sweet peppers".They are usually used as a vegetable ingredient or side dish.
Peppers are native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.In 1493 pepper seeds were imported to Spain and then spread through Europe and Asia.The mild bell pepper was developed in Hungary.Bell peppers can be grown in warm, moist soil in a temperature range of 21 to 29 C.[5]
Europeans named the pepper after Christopher Columbus, who brought the plant back to Europe.Black pepper, from the unrelated plantPiper nigrum, was a highly prized condiment at that time.When Capsicum was introduced from the Americas, the name pepper was applied to all known spices with a hot and spicy taste.The Nahuatl word for chili is the most commonly used name of the plant family.
Any of the large bell-shaped peppers, regardless of their color, are often referred to as bell peppers.The fruit is referred to as a "pepper", or alternatively by color, green pepper, red, yellow, orange, purple, brown, black.Bell peppers are sometimes called mangoes in the U.S.[7]
In some languages, the term paprika, which has its roots in the word for pepper, is used for both the spice and the fruit, sometimes referred to by their colour.The bell pepper is called "" in Japan.In Switzerland, peperone is the Italian name for the fruit.It is called poivron in France and has the same root as piment.In Spain it's called pimiento, the masculine form of pimienta.The word "" (pimang from the French piment) is used in South Korea to refer to green bell peppers.The bell pepper and the banana pepper are referred to as a "capsicum" in Sri Lanka since they have no Sinhalese translation.